D. Export

The final and most important step is exporting your project. This means transforming the content from the editor into a fully formatted and layouted publication.

This step is typically not only the last stage in preparing your publication, but also a step in between to ensure that all your settings in the template work as intended. Also, exporting the publication in its intended format is essential for checking layout, formatting, and hyphenation.

If you wanto to quickly check, whether a recent change has led to major shifts in the layout, the hyphenation in the following lines, etc. or you want to briefly check, whether e.g. a css-class formatting is working as intended, "Render Preview" (on the right, purple arrow) is the ideal option. 

Simply click on "Render Preview". A green banner ("Started preview rendering.") will appear and after a couple of seconds a panel next to the editor text opens up, where you can scroll through the rendered document. You can also adjust the zoom or modify the panel layout. 

The time until the preview appears depends on the length of your project.

If you want to export your project as a PDF or in other formats, click on the "Download" icon (on the left, yellow arrow).

The available export formats depend on the output formats you have previously set up for your template. You can create different file formats as outputs (e.g. PDF, epub, xml), but also diverging versions, e.g. a PDF with and without bleed, for print and the digital version.

You can also choose to not export the entire project but only selected chapters. To do so, select "Only Selected Chapters" and another menu opens up, where you can select those sections that should be exported.

Note: If you export only selected chapters, they will nevertheless have page numbers starting from p. 1. Hence, if you export your second chapter (that would normally start with p. 20), it will now begin with p. 1.

Once the export process is complete, you can see the following panel:

Simply click on "Download Files" - the download of a zip-file then starts automatically. You will find the zip-file in your downloads. Open it to access your finished publication created with Publish Goods!